Office of Scholarly Communication

University of California

New Horizons for Scholarly Communication at the University of California

Scholarly research publications and their distribution models are changing — and the University of California and its scholars have been both drivers and beneficiaries of these exciting transformations in recent years. This site is a resource for UC faculty, researchers, students and staff who want to learn more about:

University of California open access policies
Open access publishing support @ UC
Benefits of and tools for openly sharing research data
Changing models of peer review, evaluation metrics, and publication funding
Current issues in scholarly communication via the OSC blog

Recent posts

Pathways to Open Access: Choices and Opportunities
A Call to Action On June 21, the University of California’s Systemwide Library and Scholarly Information Advisory Committee (SLASIAC) issued a Call to Action here…
Open Mic: L2 Journal editors on the rapidly growing field of applied linguistics, the challenges of transhumanism, and the power of open access
Open Mic is a new, informal interview series with editors of open access journals, offering insider perspectives on publishing culture across disciplines and fields. In…
Championing Change in Journal Negotiations
Over the past year, the University of California’s Systemwide Library and Scholarly Information Advisory Committee (SLASIAC), in partnership with our university libraries and the systemwide…
Arnhold-Punctum Publishing Lab at UCSB Library: A Case Study in Library-Publisher Collaboration
I think we are dealing with massive uncertainty in almost every sphere at this point…Effective collaborations are going to be especially important now. Clifford Lynch,…